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Mele Hairam

Turkmenistan

Mele-Heiran is a Zoroastrian fire temple located in the Ahal Province of Turkmenistan. It was discovered in 1997 by a Polish-Turkmen expedition led by Barbara Kaim, a professor of archaeology at the University of Warsaw. The complex archaeological project is known as the "Mele-Heiran Fire Temple."

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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